>b-but muh *buntuAll of them, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc. combined haven't been as popular as Mint (and there are flavors of Mint, Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, debian) since late 2011. Deal with it. Shuttleworth was arrogant towards the userbase on key issues, Mint gave the users what they wanted.

>memedistroGentoo and Arch are the meme distros. Mint is mainstream compared to them.

>>47281585970 is a great card, I was at first before doing research thinking of 2 960s in sli like what was nice about 2 460s easily outdoing in most cases the 480... but they sorta just perform between the 970 and 980 and are the worst x60 lately.

r9 290 is insanely good deal, r9 290x is pretty good too.

Honestly though whenever AMD looks great on paper when I got a 4850, a 7970... drivers man. I went from a near perfect sometimes hickups experience with Nvidia drivers to sometimes constant nightmare mode and finally fixing it or reverting back drivers after being comfortable with every beta nvidia driver out. This is just personal experience so I know it depends on the game but for gaming at least you can clearly see a trend where through whatever evil ways Nvidia with gameworks or whatever has been doing... usually a brand new game, or older games have more issues on the red side. I also notice on each others website the latest catalyst is from....... december 14? Its like twice a month updated on the geforce one.

Anyway Im excited for the r9 390x I hope it kicks ass so 980 prices go down and I may get one of those.

Currently Im rocking with my new system an old gtx 295 I picked up clean on ebay for 30 bucks as a silly legacy placeholder to just play csgo and all the easy games fine.

>>47286886Depends, I currently got a used 2009.... gtx 295 real cheap off ebay just temporary and sorta was curious how a flagship from SIX years ago does. I havent had any issues besides one time it hickuped and froze in a unigine benchmark but ive left it overnight just in a game and it's been real stable.

Id say if it looks like-new on the outside and even if it comes in a box its probably been taken care of and not abused, i know you cant tell from the outside but typically owners of cars for instance who give a shit youll never see faded paint and its garaged for example and those are kept up with more attention.

The one computer part I would never buy used is a harddrive, a case would be annoying too unless it for sure came with all the extra accessories that comes with em. Power supply too... the most important thing to not skimp out on, other then that used processors/gpus etc have all been fine whenever i do it.

>>47286381>>47286366To my knowledge GTA IV doesnt work at all or well with multi gpu, just like GTA V seems to be and... it requires you to add a command in the launch such as in steam to ignore GPU memory because it detects anything made a year after it incorrectly

Rockstar makes some of the best game worlds and characters but they are seriously one of the worst at console porting to PC... doesn't even make sense how bad gta 4 turned out. GTA 5 Im expecting nothing less technical wise then requiring 1 card and running like a dog like 4.

>>47287497I'm using Antergos too and my knowledge of linux is meh okay. I like the graphical installer because it's harder to make a mistake than it is with parted. It might even take longer to install because the Antergos installer is really non-responsive at times (e.g. modifying partitions). Also it's great to get AUR support and current wifi drivers right out of the box.

>>47288087>>the main components are just as up to date as in archBulshit. Fedora update policy forbids major version updates within a stable release. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#PhilosophyThe exception list is rather small:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#ExceptionsSo you don't even have latest Firefox because 36.0.4 was no security fix. That leaves latest Kernel where they follow upstream due to lack of backporters.

>>47288336Ive never went into C#/ASP.net, but that looks absurdly complicated.

>>47288380Alright, here is what I will tell you to make yourself happier. Switch to Sublime. Youre comfortable with it, and thats good. Drop Microsoft and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no-Ntkc836w

>year 2004>studying in firenze, italy for an entire year of college>want computer for homework assignments when I'm in the pensione>broke as fuck>going to backpack europe after semester ends so can't take laptop with me>buy $35 Dell L400 w/o a battery off ebay>64MB RAM, takes 5 minutes to boot Win98SE>install puppy linux 0.8.2>boots in 45 seconds>can type documents in abiword but basically nothing else>mount a 16MB flash drive so I can take my documents to the school's computer that's connected to a printer>all the other students have to sign up for computer time, ruins their day planning>Receive all A's>Spend my extra free time drinking wine on the Ponte Santa Trinita>Lose my virginity to a scottish exchange student

Consider developers working together on the same product. Imagine how easy it would be to just ask across the desk how something something works quickly, as opposed to leaving your office and walking over to theirs just to ask a quick question.